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what i do is the same way that tip o'neil and ronald reagan worked together some years ago, when ronald reagan ran for office he laid out the principles he was going to foster. he said he was going to lower tax rates. he said he was going to broaden the base. you said the same thing. you're going to simplify the tax code, broaden the base. those are my principles i want to bring down the tax burden on middle-income families and i want to work with congress to say what are the various ways we can wring down deductions. one way would be to have a single number. make up a number, $25,000, $50,000. anybody can have deduction up to that amount. and then that number disappears for high-income people. that's one way one could do it. one could follow bowles-simpson and take deduction by deduction. there are alternatives to pleas the objective i have which is tow bring down rates, broaden the base, simplify the code, and create incentives for growth. with regards to health care, you had remarkable details with regard to my reexisting conditions plan. you obviously studied up on my plan. in fact
what i do is the same way that tip o'neil and ronald reagan worked together some years ago, when ronald reagan ran for office he laid out the principles he was going to foster. he said he was going to lower tax rates. he said he was going to broaden the base. you said the same thing. you're going to simplify the tax code, broaden the base. those are my principles i want to bring down the tax burden on middle-income families and i want to work with congress to say what are the various ways we...
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: on november 6, colorado and the nation will discover whether ronald reagan's prediction proves true. >> woodruff: on our politics page, you can watch more of gwen's interview with pollster gary segura. and if you speak spanish or any other language, you can help the newshour make politics accessible to everyone. on our homepage, click "help us translate the election" to join our all-volunteer captioning and translation team. >> warner: next, the stepped-up drone war against al qaeda, and to ray suarez. >> suarez: in recent years, yemen has emerged as the hottest front in the war against al qaeda. tonight's edition of "frontline" travels to the heart of the arabian peninsula nation. "guardian" journalist ghaith abdul-ahad, reporting for "frontline," gained rare access to militant strongholds. he visited several towns and met with insurgent leaders and fighters. here is an excerpt. >> reporter: this in a way is the heart land of al qaeda in yemen. this is where they've set up base five years ago, it is here in the rugged mountains where the leadership of al qaeda was based. >> reporte
: on november 6, colorado and the nation will discover whether ronald reagan's prediction proves true. >> woodruff: on our politics page, you can watch more of gwen's interview with pollster gary segura. and if you speak spanish or any other language, you can help the newshour make politics accessible to everyone. on our homepage, click "help us translate the election" to join our all-volunteer captioning and translation team. >> warner: next, the stepped-up drone war...
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that was ronald reagan. that was jack kemp. that was mike huckabee. and i don't think anybody has grabbed that mantle. >> i would say the tenor of the electorate has changed dramatically from four years. it's much darker. much more pessimistic. maybe they're reacting the that. as a political analysis, being optimistic is rarely a bad thing. >> woodruff: michele bachmann did win the iowa straw poll some months ago. she was on the rise. are the polls showing, david, her support has just all bull disappeared. yet she's been out there. hit all 99 counties. what happened to her campaign? >> people looked at her and for whatever reason there was no big event but they decided not quite ready to be president. she's had some very humbling events where very few people have showed up. there's still the press gang around here. the crucial thing is she said she's going on. the lesson of newt gingrich's career is never drop out. because you never know what's going to happen. that also is good for mitt romney because all the anti-romneys will still be around apparen
that was ronald reagan. that was jack kemp. that was mike huckabee. and i don't think anybody has grabbed that mantle. >> i would say the tenor of the electorate has changed dramatically from four years. it's much darker. much more pessimistic. maybe they're reacting the that. as a political analysis, being optimistic is rarely a bad thing. >> woodruff: michele bachmann did win the iowa straw poll some months ago. she was on the rise. are the polls showing, david, her support has...
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but ronald reagan also signed the largest tax increase in the history of the united states in 1982, to pay for it i mean what the house republican's position is now they will not raise a penny of revenue from any source. they voted actually to support farm subsidieses for farmers while cutting food stamps. and to preserve them, rather than to pay for the food stamps. and i just think that is going to be a politically difficult position for the republicans to pain taken. >> woodruff: the loss of dick lugar in indiana this weakness think he lost primarily because he was getting older, he had paid a o lot of attention to foreign policy. people want this change and he was the personification of the establishment. nonetheless it sends a message, don't compromise. and other republicans and other democrats will learn that lesson. >> woodruff: and mark, in west virginia, the president running in the democratic presidential primary, 60% of the vote against a convicted felon without got 40%. >> yeah, i think it's a terrible warning to the white house that, in a close democratic primary, democrat
but ronald reagan also signed the largest tax increase in the history of the united states in 1982, to pay for it i mean what the house republican's position is now they will not raise a penny of revenue from any source. they voted actually to support farm subsidieses for farmers while cutting food stamps. and to preserve them, rather than to pay for the food stamps. and i just think that is going to be a politically difficult position for the republicans to pain taken. >> woodruff: the...
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. >> brown: those zingers from ronald reagan that wounded jimmy cartener 1980. in the documentary "debating our destiny" jim went back to talk to candidates about their experience of the debates and had the chance to ask whether they prepared famous lines ahead of time. >> lehrer: i asked ronald reagan about, "there you go again," and a couple of others. "no, no, it just came to me." >> no it just seemed to be the thing to say and what he was saying up there. >> brown: did you believe him? >> lehrer: i don't know if i did or i didn't. i found it interesting that nobody wants to admit. >> brown: another major moment came in 2000 with vice president al gore rolling his eyes and loudly sighing during his debate with then-texas governor george w. bush. the whole world knew it,Ñi excet for the third man on the stage that night inÑi boston. >> you didn" know it was happening. >> lehrer: i didn't know it because under my personal rules, i ask candidatasm a question, ii look only at candidate a. i never look atÑi candidate b., because i don't want to be involved in
. >> brown: those zingers from ronald reagan that wounded jimmy cartener 1980. in the documentary "debating our destiny" jim went back to talk to candidates about their experience of the debates and had the chance to ask whether they prepared famous lines ahead of time. >> lehrer: i asked ronald reagan about, "there you go again," and a couple of others. "no, no, it just came to me." >> no it just seemed to be the thing to say and what he was...
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when he compared ronald reagan's meeting to mic mikal gorbachev. there was a lot of problems with beginning rush. >> newt gingrich and the highlight of his, most important of his campaign gave a statement on us statehood. we saw the effects. >> statehood, a colony -- >> i think he said statehood. shooting for the primary. >> there is going to be a contest. i think that's true. i think new newt gingrich is an enormously talented guy. he's his own campaign manager and policy expert. i think you saw fatigues in the closing days in florida. in both debates he was more pass tiff and submissive more so than in south carolina. >> there are two other events in the race. rick santorum is in nevada tonight. we heard what he had to say about the results coming in. let's listen. >> the american public does not want to see two or three candidates get into a mud wrestling match where everyone walks away dirty, and not in a position to represent our party proudly. we will have differences on the issues. we need to talk about the differences on the issues. what we
when he compared ronald reagan's meeting to mic mikal gorbachev. there was a lot of problems with beginning rush. >> newt gingrich and the highlight of his, most important of his campaign gave a statement on us statehood. we saw the effects. >> statehood, a colony -- >> i think he said statehood. shooting for the primary. >> there is going to be a contest. i think that's true. i think new newt gingrich is an enormously talented guy. he's his own campaign manager and...
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ronald reagan, george herbert walker bush, bob dole and mitt romney and john mccain. so republicans have i think come together more quickly. the one thing republicans have going for them that the democrats had going for them in 2008, there is more enthusiasm among republicans by about a 10 point margin over democrats right now. that's the reverse, almost the reverse of where it was four years ago when president obama won. >> woodruff: so david, what do you look for in the months to come. we talked about the economy. we talked about the level of enthusiasm. what do you-- dow look at everything. >> yeah, a couple things have to be decided by the candidates. as mark mentioned in the polls especially "the wall street journal" nbc poll, romney has a slight edge on who you can handle the economy but huge deficits on can relate to people like you on the personal stuff so does romney try to build that up. i guess he does but i guess he is not going to win a popularity contest, an elegance contest with barack obama. so what he has to do is say it's not about me, first of all i
ronald reagan, george herbert walker bush, bob dole and mitt romney and john mccain. so republicans have i think come together more quickly. the one thing republicans have going for them that the democrats had going for them in 2008, there is more enthusiasm among republicans by about a 10 point margin over democrats right now. that's the reverse, almost the reverse of where it was four years ago when president obama won. >> woodruff: so david, what do you look for in the months to come....
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charles freed, ronald reagan's solicitor, i mean, very conservative, hardened pressure he just couldn't believe some of the questions, that they sound like they'd been written by the tea party. i think it does become part of the political-- the "citizens united" decision, the with the bushv gore" decision and this decision in the space of what, 11 years, 12 years, that are serious political decisions that have all come down on one side. >> "roev wade" both sides were energized after that one. i don't see this having that scope. i frankly think what's going to happen-- a lot of people on the left who are champions of the bill will be furious, no question, if it's struck down-- we should emphasize we don't know if itedly happen. for the country at large, it's worth remembering the bill is unpopular, and the best study suggest 25 democrats in the house lost their seat because of this law aside from the economy in 2010. i think what will happen for most of the country is they'll say, fine. not saying the majority, and king it will have an electoral effect-- i think it will help democrats. t
charles freed, ronald reagan's solicitor, i mean, very conservative, hardened pressure he just couldn't believe some of the questions, that they sound like they'd been written by the tea party. i think it does become part of the political-- the "citizens united" decision, the with the bushv gore" decision and this decision in the space of what, 11 years, 12 years, that are serious political decisions that have all come down on one side. >> "roev wade" both sides...
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. >> warner: that fast-track authority expired in 1984, when ronald reagan was president. if congress restores it, president obama could propose cost-cutting consolidations and be guaranteed an up-or-down vote within 90 days. >> these changes would help small business owners like you. it would also help medium and large businesses. and as a consequence they would help create more jobs, sell more products overseas, grow our economy faster, improve our quality of life. >> reporter: mr. obama said his first consolidation proposal would merge six agencies: the business and trade functions of the commerce department, the small business administration, the office of the u.s. trade representative, the export import bank, the overseas private investment corporation and the trade and development agency. the president initially raised the need for consolidation during his state of the union address last year, arguing that agency jurisdictions have absurdly overlapped. >> the interior department is in charge of salmon while they're in fresh water, but the commerce department handles
. >> warner: that fast-track authority expired in 1984, when ronald reagan was president. if congress restores it, president obama could propose cost-cutting consolidations and be guaranteed an up-or-down vote within 90 days. >> these changes would help small business owners like you. it would also help medium and large businesses. and as a consequence they would help create more jobs, sell more products overseas, grow our economy faster, improve our quality of life. >>...
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. >> reporter: with then presidential candidate ronald reagan. >> how many blacks are there on your top campaign staff, governor? >> i couldn't honestly answer you. >> that speaks for itself. >> reporter: born myron wallace in 1918 in brookline, massachusetts, he graduates from the university of michigan and began a life on radio and television. doing news and hosting game shows. he developed his prosecutorial interview style at abc on the program "night beat" in 1956. and later with the mike wallace interview. >> a good many people hated your husband. they even hated you. >> yes. a great many do still. >> you should now take.... >> reporter: in 1963 he joined cbs news as a full-time newsman. here interviewing malcolm x in 1964. the year before his assassination. >> are you the least bit afraid of what might happen to you as a result of making these revelations? >> oh, yes. i probably am a dead man already. >> reporter: then came the years with "60 minutes" and producer don hewitt. the news magazine became "not to be missed" television and wallace scored 21 emmys with interview subjects
. >> reporter: with then presidential candidate ronald reagan. >> how many blacks are there on your top campaign staff, governor? >> i couldn't honestly answer you. >> that speaks for itself. >> reporter: born myron wallace in 1918 in brookline, massachusetts, he graduates from the university of michigan and began a life on radio and television. doing news and hosting game shows. he developed his prosecutorial interview style at abc on the program "night...
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ever since 1980 when ronald reagan won the state they have picked either the winner of iowa or the winner of new hampshire and the candidate who wins south carolina ends up winning the whole republican nomination. this time around there's still a little bit of chance, i suppose, that the social conservatives could rally around one candidate. but it's hard to figure out why they would now when they failed to in iowa, when they couldn't raise any kind of real firewall in new hampshire. where there's just sort of... there has not been a unifying moment behind one of the candidates. three candidates who were vying for that social conservative support are still in the race right now, still viable right now, and because three of them are viable, that means that none of them are viable. >> ifill: professor woodard, we hear a lot about the cost of running advertising. there wasn't as much advertising in new hampshire, it was a lot in iowa and it's supposed to be cheaper in south carolina. so are you seeing a lot of influx from these campaigns of negative advertising mostly. >> i talked to one of
ever since 1980 when ronald reagan won the state they have picked either the winner of iowa or the winner of new hampshire and the candidate who wins south carolina ends up winning the whole republican nomination. this time around there's still a little bit of chance, i suppose, that the social conservatives could rally around one candidate. but it's hard to figure out why they would now when they failed to in iowa, when they couldn't raise any kind of real firewall in new hampshire. where...
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they're a little more reluctant to go to war so they're less supportive of ronald reagan. they're a little more believers in activist government, more supportive of health care type issues. so as i said, there is a structural gender gap and democrats when they succeed can exploit that and build on it. and i have to say i know that cheri's trying to sort of make lemonade from lemon here, but, boy, i sometimes think watching this debate right now that the obama campaign has some kind of sleeper agent in the republican party that is creating this kerfuffle because it can't be good for republicans. >> woodruff: you mean the controversy over contraception, birth control. >> calling sandra fluke a slut and prostitute. mitt romney, i thought, made a huge mistake and i was glad to see my conservative colleague george will calling him on it in being very, very timid in what he said. he said "i wouldn't have used those words." well, what words would you use? >> woodruff: how did this happen this year in this campaign? it started out as the obama administration issuing new regulation
they're a little more reluctant to go to war so they're less supportive of ronald reagan. they're a little more believers in activist government, more supportive of health care type issues. so as i said, there is a structural gender gap and democrats when they succeed can exploit that and build on it. and i have to say i know that cheri's trying to sort of make lemonade from lemon here, but, boy, i sometimes think watching this debate right now that the obama campaign has some kind of sleeper...
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and the problem is they were 62% of the electorate when ronald reagan got electedded. nothey're 38% of the electorate. david is right. i think you've seen overtones of racial appeal in some of the commercials in the last couple of weeks. i think they are disturbing >> woodruff: a the part of the romney campaign >> yes, on the part of the romney campaign >> ifill: gentlemen, as we start our long weeks together here in tampa and next week in charlotte we want to hold you to some things. what are the big speeches you're listening for? what are the big issues that you think are going to play out in the next week or two >> i'm going with ann romney. i think she'll be the single most important speech of this convention. she's, a, a better speaker than her husband. >> ifill: aren't they always better speakers >> it is an interesting thing. psychologists should study there. they're better speaker, smarter and usually better politicians, the politicians. if anybody can humanize it's her >> mark? i am looking at the romney speech because this is a moment. i mean americans, are t
and the problem is they were 62% of the electorate when ronald reagan got electedded. nothey're 38% of the electorate. david is right. i think you've seen overtones of racial appeal in some of the commercials in the last couple of weeks. i think they are disturbing >> woodruff: a the part of the romney campaign >> yes, on the part of the romney campaign >> ifill: gentlemen, as we start our long weeks together here in tampa and next week in charlotte we want to hold you to some...
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and if you are sort of only peripherally engaged or not the superengaged prson, ronald reagan was not engaged in every detail, he could have the stam no-- stamina to do t but obama is engaged in everything. and i do think there is a sensef fat agency that one senses around the white house and one senses around him. nd so to get the passion that he had in 2008, i think is just hard given everything he's been through. >> you think that explains, mark, partly what happened? >> it may well, judy. 48 hours later, first of all, just a personal note, i have speculated on debate night that the president's passive performance and it was quite passive, listless, may have been attributed in part to john kerry, his sparring partner in the prep sessions who is a leading contender to be secretary of state maybe not going tough toe-to-toe to him. my subsequent reporting has, in fact, contradicted that. john kerry, i was told by two eye witnesses was actually tougher inside than mitt romney was with barack obama. >> woodruff: so that's not it. >> no, i don't think that-- i do think what we concluded
and if you are sort of only peripherally engaged or not the superengaged prson, ronald reagan was not engaged in every detail, he could have the stam no-- stamina to do t but obama is engaged in everything. and i do think there is a sensef fat agency that one senses around the white house and one senses around him. nd so to get the passion that he had in 2008, i think is just hard given everything he's been through. >> you think that explains, mark, partly what happened? >> it may...
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it was about 19% in 1979 before ronald reagan came to washington. in 2007 before the great recession it was 14%. the line goes down and it has gone down even further since because of the great recession and the tax credits we put in to try and address it. >> going down for all of us, and for our special interests, too. wessle chose the monocle-- one of d.c.'s choice spots far power lunch-- to make the point, telegeneralally. >> this is where lobbyists meet members of congress. it's not the floor of the house. c-span doesn't come in here but this is where the deals are really cut. >> reporter: what impact does that have on the budget? >> the budget of the united states is huge. it's $3.6 trillion, right? and in there are all sorts of deals to favor one industry or one company or one segment of the society. last year the government took in $1.3 trillion in tax revenue but the treasury adds up the t value of all the loopholes, deductions and credits and they amounted to $1.1 trillion. so they gave away almost as much money as they collected. >> reporte
it was about 19% in 1979 before ronald reagan came to washington. in 2007 before the great recession it was 14%. the line goes down and it has gone down even further since because of the great recession and the tax credits we put in to try and address it. >> going down for all of us, and for our special interests, too. wessle chose the monocle-- one of d.c.'s choice spots far power lunch-- to make the point, telegeneralally. >> this is where lobbyists meet members of congress. it's...
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reagan in his second term. didn't seem that terrible to me at the time >> reporter: we could be taking a big risk, rye? you have no know way of knowing whether or not the interest rate we're going to have to offer to borrowers might change overnight as it often recently >> well, i am reasonably sure that isn't going to happen until or unless the u.s. economy is really on the path to recovery. that's the point also by the way when i will support the austerity. once we no longer need that support to keep the economy afloat that's when you do want to start raising taxes and cutting spending but not now >> reporter: that seems to be completely obvious to you >> yes. total obvious to me. it's not to other people >> reporter: how come? you can't get too cynical. by and large the people who are ranting about debt and deficits are same people who thought it was perfectly fine for george w. bush to cut taxes without any offsetting spending cuts. they thought it was perfectly okay to have two unfunded wars. deficits didn
reagan in his second term. didn't seem that terrible to me at the time >> reporter: we could be taking a big risk, rye? you have no know way of knowing whether or not the interest rate we're going to have to offer to borrowers might change overnight as it often recently >> well, i am reasonably sure that isn't going to happen until or unless the u.s. economy is really on the path to recovery. that's the point also by the way when i will support the austerity. once we no longer need...
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who are the key for us winning ohio and pennsylvania and michigan back in the day when ronald reagan represented a republican party that stood for all of the values that made this country great. >> it is good to be with some auto workers today. >> ifill: president obama indirectly joined the fray today speaking in washington to a united auto workers union meeting that white house officials insisted was not a campaign appearance. washington had little choice, he said, but to intervene to save the stumbling auto industry. >> the other option was to do absolutely nothing. and let these companies fail. and he will recall there were some politicians who said we should do that. (crowd booing) some even said we should let detroit go bankrupt. (boo ( you have folks saying the real problem what we disagreed with was the workers. they all made out like bandits. saving the auto industry was just about paying back the unions. really? i mean, even by the standards of this town, that's a low to you know what. >> ifill: voters also cast ballots today in arizona where the latest polls show romney we
who are the key for us winning ohio and pennsylvania and michigan back in the day when ronald reagan represented a republican party that stood for all of the values that made this country great. >> it is good to be with some auto workers today. >> ifill: president obama indirectly joined the fray today speaking in washington to a united auto workers union meeting that white house officials insisted was not a campaign appearance. washington had little choice, he said, but to...
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this is not a choice between mitt romney and ronald reagan. this is a choice between mitt romney and the most radical leftest president in american hcht. >> sreenivasan: gingrich is left with a campaign debt of $4.5 million. there was troubling news on the u.s. economy today. the payroll processor, a.d.p., reported hiring was down sharply from march. the disappointing data led to a mixed day on wall street. the dow jones industrial average lost nearly 11 points to close at 13,268. the nasdaq rose nine points to close above 3059. prosecutors in florida have charged 13 students at florida a&m university in the hazing death of a school band member. drum major robert champion was found unconscious last november, on a chartered bus outside an orlando hotel. the medical examiner said he'd been beaten and gone into shock. 11 students will be charged with felony hazing, and each could get six years in prison. two others face misdemeanor charges. one of the world's most recognizable paintings, "the scream," will be auctioned tonight at sotheby's in new
this is not a choice between mitt romney and ronald reagan. this is a choice between mitt romney and the most radical leftest president in american hcht. >> sreenivasan: gingrich is left with a campaign debt of $4.5 million. there was troubling news on the u.s. economy today. the payroll processor, a.d.p., reported hiring was down sharply from march. the disappointing data led to a mixed day on wall street. the dow jones industrial average lost nearly 11 points to close at 13,268. the...
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bush and ronald reagan. he's now a senior advisor at the center for strategic and international studies. gentlemen, thank you both for being with us. john mearsheimer, i'm going to start with you. this did start with the article in foreign affairs magazine. you don't go as far as that author does in arguing that a nuclear-armed iran would be a net positive. but you do agree with him that it would bring stability to the region. why? >> i think there's no question that a nuclear-armed iran would bring stability to the region because nuclear weapons are weapons of peace. they're weapons of deterrence. they have hardly any offensive capability at all. and if iran had a nuclear deterrent, there's no way that the united states or israel, for that matter, would be threatening to attack iran now. in the same way that if saddam had had nuclear weapons in 2003, the united states would not have invaded iraq. and if libya had nuclear weapons in 2011, the united states would not have gone to war against libya. so i think
bush and ronald reagan. he's now a senior advisor at the center for strategic and international studies. gentlemen, thank you both for being with us. john mearsheimer, i'm going to start with you. this did start with the article in foreign affairs magazine. you don't go as far as that author does in arguing that a nuclear-armed iran would be a net positive. but you do agree with him that it would bring stability to the region. why? >> i think there's no question that a nuclear-armed iran...
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add up to avoid a huge tax break at the top because whenever we've cut tax rates before, like under ronald reagan, the way that they avoided it being a huge tax cut at the top was to raise the tax rate on capital gains so that it was the same as the regular income tax rate. ryan has said he wouldn't do that. >> ifill: we have to be fair here. >> just to put it simply, we are now in fourth year of trillion dollar deficits. we're on a path in which the public debt will be twice the size of the entire economy. we need to do something about that. you may disagree with portions of chairman ryan's proposal, but you can have no doubt that something has to be done to correct the path we're. >> ifill: patrick knudson, bob greenstein, steven dennis, thank you all very much. >> woodruff: we're joined by newshour political editor christina bellantoni. welcome to you both. what does this say about governor romney, dan? >> two things. one is something we often underestimate. the personal nature of a pick like this, all of these presidential candidates want comfort with the person they find as their runn
add up to avoid a huge tax break at the top because whenever we've cut tax rates before, like under ronald reagan, the way that they avoided it being a huge tax cut at the top was to raise the tax rate on capital gains so that it was the same as the regular income tax rate. ryan has said he wouldn't do that. >> ifill: we have to be fair here. >> just to put it simply, we are now in fourth year of trillion dollar deficits. we're on a path in which the public debt will be twice the...
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. >> ronald reagan and bill clinton were confronted with the same situation where they had a congress that wouldn't give them everything they wanted and they managed to lead and to reach agreements and to be successful. this president has chosen to play the blame game. >> reporter: with an election coming up and relations between the two ends of pennsylvania avenue as strained as ever, president obama appears to be borrowing some language from another democrat in an era of divided government. norman ornstein is with the american enterprise institute, a conservative think tank in washington. >> the phrase do-nothing congress was coined by harry truman in 1948. he ran against the famous 80th congress, famous because it was the do-nothing republican congress. the irony in 1948 is the 80th congress was actually an extraordinarily productive and meaningful congress. the 80th do-nothing congress gave us the marshall plan which transformed the world for half a century. as senate democratic leader reid sees it, the problem of inaction stands out clearly when this congress is compared to the l
. >> ronald reagan and bill clinton were confronted with the same situation where they had a congress that wouldn't give them everything they wanted and they managed to lead and to reach agreements and to be successful. this president has chosen to play the blame game. >> reporter: with an election coming up and relations between the two ends of pennsylvania avenue as strained as ever, president obama appears to be borrowing some language from another democrat in an era of divided...
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i remember the first campaign i covered in 1980 where the carter people were so pleased that ronald reagan had the nom thags. that didn't turn out the way they had hoped. >> brown: thank you both very much. >> warner: still to come on newshour, aid groups trying to help in syria; the first american to orbit the earth; the battle against polio in india; and a new museum honoring abraham lincoln. but first, the other news of the day. here's kwame holman. >> holman: the eurozone's finance ministers moved closer today to approving a second bailout for greece at a meeting in brussels. greece must implement more tough austerity measures in exchange for the $171 billion rescue package to avoid defaulting on its debts next month. several finance ministers spoke to reporters ahead of the decision. . >> we need final clarity about the participation of private credits about a program that will ensure that greece's debt is reduced and does not exceed around 120% of gross domestic product by the year 2020. >> greece knows what it has to do and we'll watch over it continually. we also know what we have
i remember the first campaign i covered in 1980 where the carter people were so pleased that ronald reagan had the nom thags. that didn't turn out the way they had hoped. >> brown: thank you both very much. >> warner: still to come on newshour, aid groups trying to help in syria; the first american to orbit the earth; the battle against polio in india; and a new museum honoring abraham lincoln. but first, the other news of the day. here's kwame holman. >> holman: the...
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reagan as a unifiers for the republican party. i'll tell you somebody else who's a stronger uniter and that is barack obama. republicans of all stripes are very eager to deny president obama a second term and in the end i think that tegs strongest force that will unite the party behind mitt romney. >> woodruff: we going to leave it there. susan page, jim o'toole, we thank you both. >> thank you, judy. >> thank you. >> brown: still to come on the newshour, increased taxes on the very rich; budget strains at community colleges; and the rise and spread of the aids epidemic. but first, the other news of the day. here's hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: wall street hit the brakes again today. stocks extended a week-long slump, amid simmering concerns about u.s. corporate earnings and debt problems in europe. the dow jones industrial average lost 213 points to close below 12,716. the nasdaq fell nearly 56 points to close at 2991. the government of syria claimed today that its army is pulling back from towns and villages as part of a u.n
reagan as a unifiers for the republican party. i'll tell you somebody else who's a stronger uniter and that is barack obama. republicans of all stripes are very eager to deny president obama a second term and in the end i think that tegs strongest force that will unite the party behind mitt romney. >> woodruff: we going to leave it there. susan page, jim o'toole, we thank you both. >> thank you, judy. >> thank you. >> brown: still to come on the newshour, increased taxes...
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when ronald reagan got in trouble in 1980 and in did in that campaign there were people there who had been with him in 1964 and barry goldwater fight, been with him in 1968 when he challenged richard nixon as the conservative alternative, 1976 when he took on president-- there were to years of shared foxholes, there aren't with mitt romney so when mitt romney gets in trouble, there isn't that emotional cadre of people saying i've been there in the tough ones. and he was always good. >> yeah. i agree with that. though i would say the trouble is different. let me put it this way. several decades ago hi a chance to have dinner with tom clancy the thriller writer. he sat down and had just toured a battleship and seen a new weapon system and was bubbling over about excitement about the new weapon system he thought was very interesting. and he was just talking about it with great passion. and i remember thinking, you can't fake it if you don't feel that you can't write tom clancy nofls. and with mitt romney, he's faking it. i think he's a nonideaological guy running in an ideaological age w
when ronald reagan got in trouble in 1980 and in did in that campaign there were people there who had been with him in 1964 and barry goldwater fight, been with him in 1968 when he challenged richard nixon as the conservative alternative, 1976 when he took on president-- there were to years of shared foxholes, there aren't with mitt romney so when mitt romney gets in trouble, there isn't that emotional cadre of people saying i've been there in the tough ones. and he was always good. >>...
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ronald reagan... >> oh, now, you're jack kennedy. >> woodruff: abortion also figured as a key issue in the debate. both men are catholics, and they were asked to describe their position, based on their faith. >> i don't see how a person can separate their public life from their private life or from their faith. and i respect people who don't agree with me on this. but the policy of a romney administration will be to oppose abortion, with the exceptions for rape, incest, and life of the mother. >> life begins at conception. that's the church's judgment. i accept it in my personal life. i just refuse to impose that on others, unlike my friend here, the congressman. i do not believe that we have a right to tell other people that women, they... they can't control their body. it's a decision between them and their doctor, in my view. and the supreme court-- i'm not going to interfere with that. >> woodruff: biden warned a conservative supreme court majority would overturn a woman's right to choose. ryan, who's on record favoring such a move, said abortion policy is best made by elected lawm
ronald reagan... >> oh, now, you're jack kennedy. >> woodruff: abortion also figured as a key issue in the debate. both men are catholics, and they were asked to describe their position, based on their faith. >> i don't see how a person can separate their public life from their private life or from their faith. and i respect people who don't agree with me on this. but the policy of a romney administration will be to oppose abortion, with the exceptions for rape, incest, and...
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reagan called him. he is seen as the biggest terrorist in the world and he certainly did sponsor terrorism in all sorts of different places all over the world. but then after 9/11, when he, his enemies were jihaddees, from fundamentalist muslim and so you got to a situation where our enemy's enemy is our friendment and i think it's completely understandable given what was going on at the world at that point that that happened. but what western countries did was that they chose to forget some of the appalling things that this man has done. they chose to forget the human right as becausement they chose to forget that in the prison in 19961,270 men were gunned down in cold blood, herded into a courtyard, soldiers put on the roof around and they were gunned down. and eye witnesses i spoke to saw the walls of that courtroom turn red with blood. now our leaders decided it was expedient to make friends with qaddafi for other reasons at that time. and they forgot all about that massacre. i have to say one of th
reagan called him. he is seen as the biggest terrorist in the world and he certainly did sponsor terrorism in all sorts of different places all over the world. but then after 9/11, when he, his enemies were jihaddees, from fundamentalist muslim and so you got to a situation where our enemy's enemy is our friendment and i think it's completely understandable given what was going on at the world at that point that that happened. but what western countries did was that they chose to forget some of...
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. >> america leads, just like ronald reagan led during the cold war, and where we can make a difference, we should, and that does not mean, i emphasize, an american ground invasion. >> brown: then, a scientific breakthrough. we examine a new genetic map of the trillions of micro-organisms that live in and on our bodies. >> woodruff: from cambodia, fred de sam lazaro reports on the working conditions in the country's garment industry, which exports much of its clothing to the united states. >> many factories have been plagued by labor unrest, occasionally it's been violent. there have been frequent reports of workers fainting on the factory floor. >> brown: margaret warner handles the daily download. tonight's topic: politicians and others using phony social-media pages to attack their opponents. >> woodruff: and spencer michels interviews a filmmaker who has chronicled the early days of the aids epidemic in san francisco. that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> growing up in arctic norway, everybody took fish oil to stay heal
. >> america leads, just like ronald reagan led during the cold war, and where we can make a difference, we should, and that does not mean, i emphasize, an american ground invasion. >> brown: then, a scientific breakthrough. we examine a new genetic map of the trillions of micro-organisms that live in and on our bodies. >> woodruff: from cambodia, fred de sam lazaro reports on the working conditions in the country's garment industry, which exports much of its clothing to the...
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therefore i think the voters are going to ask the question that ronald reagan put so succinctly and is so brilliantly, are you better off than you were four years ago? or maybe even better, judy, is the country better off than it was four years ago? they will ask that question as they always do in these referendum elections. they will come up with their answer. >> woodruff: you know, on that point, bob, you call for the candidates to campaign with an eye to governing. to think ahead to what it's going to be like if they're elected, if they're serving. are they doing that in this election, in this campaign? >> no, i don't think they're doing that. if you believe, as i do -- and others may not -- that these elections are referendums, then it means that the incumbent needs to run on his record. the effort to dismantle and destroy the image and the standing of his opponent, that doesn't really make a lot of sense. it's harmful actually in terms of how he's going to bring the country together once he's re-elected, if he is re-elected. in the case of the challenger, he needs to... if you tak
therefore i think the voters are going to ask the question that ronald reagan put so succinctly and is so brilliantly, are you better off than you were four years ago? or maybe even better, judy, is the country better off than it was four years ago? they will ask that question as they always do in these referendum elections. they will come up with their answer. >> woodruff: you know, on that point, bob, you call for the candidates to campaign with an eye to governing. to think ahead to...